The Labor enquirer., 1887-05-28
THE PLATFORM.


We, the Union Labor Party of Colora-
do declare our adherance to the National
Platform of the party as adopted at Gin
cinnati, Ohio.
We further declare that all men and
women are born free and with equal rights;
that they are endowed with certain ina
lienable rights among which are the right
of all to life and the means of living
liberty and the conditions assem-
tial to liberty, the right of all to equal and
exact justice and to the free use of the
legitimate means necessary to enforce it,
and the right to the pursuit of happiness.
We declare these to be the basic principles
of the Labor Movement, whether domes-
tic or foreign, and we invite to their sup
port and adherance, all honest men ire
spcctive of nationality or creed.
We denOunce the secret conspiracy (now
being made manifest, among the monopo-
listic and aristocratic classes) to steal
from us, the people, by bribed legislatures,
corrupted courts and servile executives,
our dearest constitutional rights, as TREAS
ON pure and unallOyed. We declare that
we will resist to the uttermost the attempts
now being made in dozen states OF this
land to suppress the right of free speech,
to kill the labor press, to deprive us of
jury trials and presentments, to disarm
the people, to enforce unlawful seizures
and searches of persons, papers, houses
and effects, to destroy the rights of public
assemblage, protest and petition, and to
deprive us of the ballot .
We insist that the robbery of the public
treasury shall cease; that bribery and
Doodle must go; that election frauds must
stop; that taxes be laid Justly upon the
rich and poor alike; that justice be free;
that the rich criminal shall not escape the
jail; and that the poor man shall not be
bounded to death, desperation or despair.
We declare that franchises for public
works shall no longer be corruptly granted
to private corporations but shall be owned
and operated by the people, for the peo-
pie at cost.
The waters of the state should be SO ad-
ministered by the state at cost, that the
toilers of the farms and the moilers in the
shops can have water, one of Gods free
gifts to.man, at the cost price of con-
structing and maintaining the proper wat
er works and irrigation system.
The mines of this state must be so ad-
ministered as to benefit the working
miners more and the foreign stock holders
less.
The infnity of wrongs under which the
workers and producers suffer, preclude
further specification. But the United La
Dor Party stands pledged to remedy them,
one and all by constitutional methods as
far as human wisdom, honest deeds and
deep and abiding love of humanity and
our American institutions can serve so to
do.
We believe the dicta of science that pow
erty can and must be abolished, that crime
and misery can and shall be destroyed and
that he who will not work, alone ought not
to eat.
The time has come for party of hon
est men, true to their convictions and
fearing nothing but to do a dishonest act.
This the United Labor Party shall be, or
it shall not live.
To our aid and support we call the eff
forts of all who love their country and will
recognize the supremacy of moral instead
of selfish obligations.
We affirm that we alone are the party of
true Americanism, combining honest
democracy and progressive republicanism
in fact, intead of in name alone.